Inactivation of Clostridium botulinum type A neurotoxin by trypsin and purification of two tryptic fragments. Proteolytic action near the COOH-terminus of the heavy subunit destroys toxin-binding activity.
Inactivation of Clostridium botulinum type A neurotoxin by trypsin and purification of two tryptic fragments. Proteolytic action near the COOH-terminus of the heavy subunit destroys toxin-binding activity.
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胰蛋白酶灭活 A 型肉毒梭菌神经毒素并纯化两个胰蛋白酶片段。
DOI:
10.1111/j.1432-1033.1985.tb09070.x
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发表时间:
1985
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影响因子:
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通讯作者:
Jack Melling
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文献类型:
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作者:
C. Shone;P. Hambleton;Jack Melling
Limited treatment of Clostridium botulinum type A neurotoxin with trypsin resulted in the cleavage of the heavy (95000 Da) subunit at approximately the mid-position and a loss of toxic activity. The rate of toxicity loss was considerably faster than that of mid-chain cleavage; thus a loss of toxicity in excess of 90% was accompanied by only 30-35% mid-chain cleavage of the heavy subunit. A study of the binding of 125I-labelled neurotoxin to rat brain synaptosomes showed the loss of toxicity on trypsin treatment to be paralleled by a loss of toxin binding to rat brain synaptosomes suggesting the presence of at least two sites of tryptic action on the 95000-Da binding subunit. Prolonged treatment of the neurotoxin with trypsin resulted in the complete digestion of a 46000-Da fragment of the heavy subunit, leaving intact a soluble fragment of approximately 105000 Da containing the light subunit linked to the remaining (49000-Da) portion of the heavy subunit. This fragment exhibited less than 0.01% of the original toxicity and gave immunoprecipitation reactions indistinguishable from the native toxin. The 49000-Da portion of the heavy chain was purified from the 105000-Da fragment of the toxin and the sequence of the first 35 amino acids determined. The sequence of the first 10 residues was found to be identical to that previously reported for the heavy subunit showing that the 49000-Da fragment represents the NH2-terminal portion of the heavy chain and that this region is resistant to tryptic action. It is suggested that the primary site(s) of tryptic action on the heavy subunit of botulinum type A neurotoxin is close to the COOH terminus and that cleavage of the polypeptide chain in this region results in a loss of toxic activity mediated by the destruction of the neurotoxin-binding site.
DOI:
10.1016/s0006-291x(85)80009-7
发表时间:
1985
影响因子:
3.1
作者:
Sathyamoorthy,V;DasGupta,BR
通讯作者:
DasGupta,BR
影响因子:
21.1
作者:
Simpson,LL
通讯作者:
Simpson,LL